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Hiep-Hung Pham; Thanh-Thao Thi Phan; Oanh Pham; Trung Tien Nguyen; Van-An Le Nguyen; Minh-Trang Do; Anh Tuan Nguyen – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the trend of research on universities and accountability (UAA) in Southeast Asian (SEA) countries. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 115 journal articles, conference papers, books and book chapters were obtained from the Scopus database spanning the years 1996-2023. These documents were subsequently…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews, Institutional Autonomy, Universities
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Vuokko Kohtamäki – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
This study applies resource dependence theory to address the question of how the critical resource dependence relationship emerges in the context of a university's performance agreement. This study focuses on two Nordic universities that have adopted performance agreements while simultaneously using strong performance-based state funding. Resource…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Universities
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Laura Mentini; Antonina Levatino – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
The widespread adoption of school autonomy with accountability reforms in education has generated debate regarding the relationship between autonomy, innovation and accountability. While at the policy design level, these three elements are highly related, several authors highlight the contradictions among them. By analyzing key documents and…
Descriptors: Models, Accountability, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Innovation
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Eacott, Scott; Niesche, Richard; Keddie, Amanda; Blackmore, Jill; Wilkinson, Jane; Gobby, Brad; MacDonald, Katrina – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2023
A persuasive solution for governments and systemic authorities seeking to improve the quality and equity of outcomes for students has been the localized management of schools. Believed to provide opportunities for context-sensitive decision-making, what remains unclear is how does shifting increasing management to the school-level generate the…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Outcomes of Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Change
Christian Buerger; Jane Arnold Lincove; Catherine Mata – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
School autonomy has been and continues to be one of the most important education reform strategies around the world despite ambiguity about its theoretical and empirical effects on students learning. We use international data from PISA to test three country-level factors that might account for inconsistent results in prior literature: (1) the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Tomas Esper – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2024
Spreading like wildfire, school autonomy with accountability (SAWA) policies have transformed education worldwide. Rooted in new public management, SAWA is a 'policy bundle' that links greater decision-making at the school level with standardization and monitoring practices like large-scale assessments and performance indicators. As with every…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Educational History, Accountability
Kreijkes, Pia; Johnson, Martin – Research Matters, 2023
In this paper we explore the concept of the middle tier in education systems, outlining how it is a crucial element that links high-level education policy to the practices that are carried out in schools. Reflecting on the similarities and differences in the profiles of the middle tiers of the four nations of the United Kingdom (UK), we observe…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Institutional Autonomy, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Skerritt, Craig – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2023
A significant paradox of school autonomy is that it tends to constrain the autonomy of teachers, instead subjecting them to the increased controlling of their work, heightened monitoring, and greater accountability. This paper draws on interview data to show how teachers in accountability-driven and business-like schools face three different but…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Professional Autonomy, Accountability, Observation
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Gita Steiner-Khamsi; Kolfinna Johannesdottir; Berglind Ros Magnusdottir – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2024
The study examines the selective adoption of the school-autonomy-with-accountability (SAWA) reform at upper secondary school level in Iceland. It draws on a review of policy documents (acts, amendments to acts, regulations) and interviews with 17 individuals, including four former ministers of education that served over the period 1995-2017. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Institutional Autonomy, Administrative Organization
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Rajesh Bhattacharya – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2024
The New Education Policy (NEP), 2020, adopted by Government of India, envisages significant and far-reaching reforms in higher education sector in India. In this article, I foreground certain peculiar features of the process of massification of higher education in India, including privatisation and fragmentation. I locate the political economy of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Higher Education
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Marcel Pagès; Gerard Ferrer-Esteban; Antoni Verger; Miriam Prieto – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
School systems are shifting towards forms of post-bureaucratic governance (PBG), implying higher levels of school autonomy, choice, and performance-based management. Under this governance approach, which combines forms of administrative and market accountability, schools face greater levels of competition and external pressure to perform. Schools…
Descriptors: Governance, Institutional Autonomy, Performance Based Assessment, Accountability
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Alajmi, Munirah – International Journal of Educational Management, 2022
Purpose: This study aimed to explore Kuwaiti public school principals' experiences in relation to autonomy and accountability after the implementation of the School Education Quality Improvement Project, which aimed to increase the autonomy and accountability of Kuwaiti public schools. Design/methodology/approach: This study adopted a qualitative…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Accountability, Principals, School Administration
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Kumalo, Siseko H. – Higher Education Quarterly, 2021
Interrogating the White Paper 3 of 1997 which upholds academic freedom, institutional autonomy and public accountability, I make the case for justice through higher education using public accountability. I argue that the higher education system in South Africa is capable of fulfilling such a role in the context of extreme injustices but not…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accountability, Foreign Countries, School Community Relationship
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Balasi, Aikaterini; Iordanidis, George; Tsakiridou, Eleni – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: To improve school organisational performance and innovativeness, and meet diverse student needs, school leaders should be innovative, risk-takers and proactive, thus applying entrepreneurial practices/strategies and market mechanisms. This study aims to investigate, from a schoolteacher's perspective, the degree of entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Principals, Entrepreneurship, Leadership
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Zhan, Xi; Cao, Min – Journal of Educational Administration, 2023
Purpose: Principal instructional leadership and teacher participation in decision-making are conceptualized as shared instructional leadership (SIL) -- a management philosophy that positively impacts student academic performance. However, the statistically meaningful relationship between SIL and student performance remains controversial as SIL…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Participative Decision Making, Principals, Teacher Participation
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